I Return you many thanks for the favour you have done me, in affording me the view of this solid and seasonable piece of Dr. Twice, in full answer to this pretended Questionist; who under the colour of a Perplexing Case of Conscience from a Preacher of the Gospel, sends forth a ⟨image 4⟩foolish kind of challenge to all Protestant Divines. Had you not named the Author of the satisfactory Answer, and seconded it by another's attestation, I could both have known and avouched him. There is a face of a style, by which we Scholars know one another, no less than our persons by a visible countenance; whosoever hath read the witty & acute exercitations of this Author upon the writings of Doctor Jackson, will easily find him in this Tractate both for form and matter. This skulking and disguised Challenger could not have met with a meeter Combatant; a man so ⟨image 4⟩eminent in School-Divinity, that the Jesuits have felt, and (for ought I see) shrunk under his strength, in their Scientia Media, and whom the States of the Netherlands out of the fame of his worth, would fain have tempted away with large proffers to a Public Professorship in one of their Universities. I only wish he had met with a more able Adversary: For certainly, as I intimated to you in my last, this Beagle, whosoever he be, whether out of misprision or craft, hunts counter, and runs all the while upon a wrong ground; vainly supposing, that differences in points not fundamental, make ⟨image 5⟩a diversity of Religions; and weakly conceiving, that because there are many false claims to Truth in the world, God hath not left us means enough in his revealed Will to distinguish Truth from Error; as if, because there are store of counterfeit coins abroad, it could not be safe for a man to receive, or possible to discern currant money: whereas, if his wit would have served him, he might have considered, that all, both Agenda and Credenda necessary to salvation (which only can difference Religion) are clearly laid down in the sacred Oracles of Scripture, with which if any refractory soul ⟨image 5⟩will unjustly quarrel, he may by those helps which God hath left to his Church, be either convinced, or shamed;
I Return you many thanks for the favour you have done me, in affording me the view of this solid and seasonable piece of Dr. Twisse, in full answer to this pretended Questionist; who under the colour of a Perplexing Case of Conscience from a Preacher of the Gospell, sends forth a ⟨image 4⟩foolish kind of challenge to all Protestant Divines. Had you not named the Author of the satisfactory Answer, and seconded it by anothers attestation, I could both have known and avouched him. There is a face of a style, by which we Scholars know one another, no less than our persons by a visible countenance; whosoever hath read the witty & accute exercitations of this Author upon the writings of Doctor Jackson, will easily finde him in this Tractate both for form and matter. This sculking and disguised Chalenger could not have met with a meeter Combatant; a man so ⟨image 4⟩eminent in School-Divinity, that the Jesuits have felt, and (for ought I see) shrunk under his strength, in their Scientia Media, and whom the States of the Netherlands out of the fame of his worth, would fain have tempted away with large profers to a Publick Professorship in one of their Universities. I onely wish he had met with a more able Adversary: For certainly, as I intimated to you in my last, this Beagle, whosoever he be, whether out of misprision or craft, hunts counter, and runs all the while upon a wrong ground; vainly supposing, that differences in points not fundamentall, make ⟨image 5⟩a diversity of Religions; and weakly conceiving, that because there are many false claims to Truth in the world, God hath not left us means enough in his revealed Will to distinguish Truth from Error; as if, because there are store of counterfeit coyns abroad, it could not be safe for a man to receive, or possible to discern currant money: whereas, if his wit would have served him, he might have considered, that all, both Agenda and Credenda necessary to salvation (which only can difference Religion) are clearly laid down in the sacred Oracles of Scripture, with which if any refractory soul ⟨image 5⟩will unjustly quarrell, he may by those helps which God hath left to his Church, be either convinced, or shamed;
